Seat for grain-wagons.



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SEAT FOR GRAIN WAGONS. APPucAnou FILED MAY 6. 1913.

1,136,685. Patented Apr. 20. 1915.

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JACOB J. LEE, OF AGATE, NORTH DAKOTA.

SEAT r03. GRAIN-WAGONS.

I grain tanks, and has as its object to provide a seat Which may be comfortably occupied whether the wagon be loaded or emptied.

Ordinarily, a seat-board is disposed upon the top of the wagon, but the driver who occupies such a seat has no rest for his feet, and in fact the drivers of such wagons usually find it preferable to stand in the body of the wagon. Inneither event, however, can the driver wrap himself in robes or blankets to protect him from the cold.

The present invention, therefore, has as its primary aim to provide a seat and a support therefor so constructed that the seat may be supported in elevated position when the wagon is being driven loaded and may be supported a suitabledistanceabove the floor of the wagon body when the wagon is empty, in the first instance to permit of the driver resting his feet upon the top of the front of the wagonbody and in the second instance to permit of him resting his feet upon the floor of the Wagon body.

It is a well-lmown fact that when a wagon is being driven loaded it will travel more steadily and with less vibration than when empty, and the invention therefore aims to so construct thesupport for the seat-board that while the board will be rigidly supported when elevated, it will be yieldably supported when lowered, so that in the latter instance it may be occupied withpractically the same degree of comfort as a spring-seat.

The invention further aims to. provide a seat of the class mentioned which may be readily applied to wagon bodies of various dimensionswith only the substitution of a seat-board of one length for another of a different length.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View in front elevation of the seat structure embodying the present Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Application filed May 6, 1913. Serial No. 765,858.

invention arranged within a grain wagon body which is shown in transverse section. Fig. 2 is a group perspective view illustratmg certain of the parts of the structure in position to be assembled. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, illustrating the parts shown in Fig. 2 assembled.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings the seat-board is illustrated as supported by hanger members which are mounted upon standards at opposite sides of the wagon body.

The standards mentioned above are indicated by the numeral 1 and each consistsof a suitable length of bar metal bolted or otherwise secured as at 2 to one side wall of the body which is indicated at 3. The sides of the body 3 are, as usual, inclined upwardly as at 4 from their lower portions and from their inclined portions extend vertically as at 5. The standards 1 at their upper ends are braced in spaced relation to the portions 5 of the sides of the body by means of suitable brackets each formed from a length of bar metal bent to provide a connecting portion 6 and arms 7 which terminate in attaching ears 8 secured to the said portions, 5. The intermediateportion fi of each bracket is riveted or otherwise secured to the upper end of the respective standard 1.

For a purpose to be presently explained a spring-pressed latch-pin is provided upon each of the standards 1 and each of these pins is mounted in a suitable bracket bearing 9 riveted or otherwise secured to the respective standard and formed in its intermediate portion with an opening 10 slidably receiving the pin which is indicated at 11. The pin also fits slidably through an opening 12 formed in the respective standard 1 and upon each pin is fitted a spring 13 bearing at one end against the said intermediate portion of the bracket bearing 9 and bearing at its other end against a stop-pin 14 fitted attaching plate-portions l5 and downwardly converging arms 16 and 17. The arm 17 is of greater length than the arm 16 and has its lower portion bent at an angle so as to end of the arm 16 and said portion of the arm 17 are formed with registering openings 20 through which is fitted a pivot-bolt 21 passed also through the upper end of the respective standard 1, and: secured by a nut 22. A bar. 23 isbent at, its upper end as at 24 toform an attaching portion securedato the attaching plate portion 151 and at its lower end this bar is rivetechas. at. 25.130 the arm. 17. For apurposeto.bepresently set.

forth the arm 23 is providedwithan opening. 26-. and theportion. 18 0f, the arm 17 is. provided. with. an opening. 27 the openings26. and 27 being equiedistantly. spaced:

from the pivot 20. By reference to 'Fig, 2 of the drawing it. will;be.0.b'serve.d that... the lowerend of theportion18of the arm.17 is bent laterally and upon itself. as at .28,

The seat-board is indicated-by the numeral 29and has securedto. it at each end a metallicreinforcing strip 30 having openings 31 registering with openings. in the seatboard which in turn register with openings 32 formed in. the attaching portion 15 of the respective seat-board hanger. Bolts 33 arev fitted through theopenings 31 and 32 and. arranged uponeach. of the boltsis a spring 34: hearing. at one end against the portion. 15. of. the hangerand at its otherend against a washer. and nut 35 threaded upon the bolt. J I

Fromthe foregoing description of, the inventionJit. will bev seen that-when. the wagon is loaded andit is'desired to support. the seat-board: in elevated position, the hanger members. are. sdswung that the openings v27 therein will come opposite the openings 12 inthe respective standards 1, whereupon the latch-pins'll-will be held: projected by their respective springs 13 into the saidopenings 27 When the. hangers arein theposition stated the hooked lower ends 28 of their portions 18 will engage over the respective standards 1 and the seatwill be firmly braced inthe position shown in full lines, in Fig. 1 of the drawings. When the wagon is beingdrawn empty, however, and it is desired toprovide a cushion-seat and to locatethe seat'near the. floor of the wagon, the latchpinsll are withdrawnfrom engagement in the openings. 27 and the seat-board and its supporting hangers are swung downwardly until the openings. 26in the members. 23

come opposite the openings.12 in the respective'standards 1. The latch-pins 11 are then allowed to resume their. normal position and theseat-board will be supported at shownin dotted lines in the said Fig. 1. It will be noted that when in this latter position the seat-board, may yield downwardly against the tension of the springs 34: and consequently'the seat is rendered practically as comfortable as an ordinary spring-seat.

pivots, and a hook carried by each hanger and-arranged to engage with the respective,

standard. whenthehangers are. in the first mentioned position, whereby to bracefthe sameagainsttilting. p

'2; In a. seat structure, standards, a seat: board hanger pivotally mounted upon each of; the standards, eachoftheharigers hav ingportions extending at oppositesides be: yond the pivot, seatboar'd. supported, by on'elofs the portions, of each of the hangers and. arranged. when the hangers, are in one position of, adjustment. to assume a position abovethe. pivot and whenthe, hangers are in, another positionofadjustment to assume aposition, belowthe pivot, and means c0- operating. withthe saidportions of each hanger for holding the hangersiin either of their positionsofadjustment,

. :3. Inaseat structure, standards, aseate V ofthe standards,,.each of the hangers having portions, extending, at; opposite sidesbe yond'; the pivot, a seat-boardsupported by one of theportionsbf each" of the'hangers board hanger pivotally mounted; upon each and arranged.;when the hangers: are in one position. of adjustmentto assumea position above. 'the pivot. and: when the hangers are in another position of adj ,ustment to assume a position below the pivot, means cooperating with the said portionsof each hanger for I holding thehangers in either of their posi-, tions of adjustment, andmmeans yieldably supporting the seatyboa-rd-when the hangers are, in their last, mentioned adjusted position.

. 4. In a seat structure, standards, seat board hangers mounted uponthe standards for reversal and. each v provided with a seat board supporting flange, the said flanges beingYprovided with openings, a seatboard disposed; tofrest against the flanges, bolts secured through the seat board and slidably fitting in thesaidopenings intheiflangeaa springupon eachof the bolts, and a stop upon each bolt the springsbearing at their 1 ends. against the stops and the said flanges. '5, In a. seat, structure, standards, a seat board;hanger pivotally mounted. upon each of the standards, each of the hangershaving portions extending at opposite sides beyond the. pivot, a seat board supported at each end by one of the portions of each hanger and arranged when the hangers are in one operating with the keeper member's, whereby position of adjustment to assume a position to support the hangers in one or another of above the pivot and When the hangers are their said positions of adjustment. in another position of adjustment to assume In testimony whereof I affix my signature 5 a position below the; pivot, each of th; in presence of two Witnesses. han ers havin each 0 its portions provide With a keeper member and the said keeper JACOB members of each hanger being equi-distantly Witnesses: spaced at opposite sides of the pivot, and a C. F. NELSON, 10 latch member carried by each hanger and co- W. I. News.

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